Tamuda

 

◙ Tamuda was an ancient Berber city and military camp in Mauretania Tingitana.

 

◙ The ancient city was founded in the 3rd century BC by the Mauretanian Berbers of northern Morocco.

 

◙ The Tamuda site is located in the Oued Martil valley, about 10 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast.

 

◙ The documentation of the phenico-punic occupation of the Tamuda site is very thin.

 

◙ The first urban state of Tamuda was spotted in a survey carried out on the edge of the military camp grounds and dates back to the end of the 3rd century BC. J.

 

◙ In the second century the city of Tamuda opened on the commercial circuits of the Mediterranean, and we see the arrival of ceramics dating from the first half of the 2nd century BC.

 

◙ The city of Tamuda suffered towards the end of the first century BC. J.C., fire-related destruction. This destruction, attested at several sites in northern Morocco, is certainly linked to the historical facts that marked Mauretania at that time, namely the struggles between King Bogud, an ally of Antony, and King Bocchus allied with Octavian during the revolt of the inhabitants of Tangier in 38 BC. 

 

◙ Tamuda was permanently destroyed around 40 AD. J.-C. during the intervention of Roman troops in Mauretania and the revolt of Aedemon.

 

◙ In the 2nd century AD. J.C. the Romans built a military camp on the ruins of Tamuda, devoid of towers but with rounded angles. At the end of the 3rd century, this camp was redesigned and semi-circular towers were added at the corners and courts.